SEMpdxMembers – Take 10% off the prevailing registration rate for Search Marketing Expo – SMX West, Santa Clara CA , February 26-28, 2008 Members, please login to our website to get the discount codes. Less than a month until Search Marketing Expo - SMX West in Santa Clara, CA. Register today and join the search marketers from more than 450 companies who will attend SMX West. SMX West will deliver cutting-edge SEO and PPC content, insightful keynotes and community-building networking events Read more [...]

Dustin will be speaking on the "Links: Development, Baiting & Buying" panel at Searchfest which will take place on March 10th, 2008 at the Portland Zoo. Purchase your Searchfest 08 tickets now. 1) Please give us your background and tell us what you do for a living? I’ve been in charge of SEO, analytics and usability for a few select companies for just over a decade now. I dabbled in PPC in the early days, but decided to focus on natural search, as that is where I see the greatest value. Read more [...]

Marty will be speaking on the "Marketing 2.0 Issues: Online Reputation Management, the dark side of SMM" panel at Searchfest which will take place on March 10th, 2008 at the Portland Zoo. Purchase your Searchfest 08 tickets now. 1) Please give us your background and tell us what you do for a living? I am president  of aimClear, a search engine optimization (SEO) Internet marketing firm in Duluth and Minneapolis, Minnesota. We offer website promotion, organic optimization, social media Read more [...]

Todd Mintz posted a YouTube video a couple of days ago and complained of "embedding issues" so I thought I'd do the same, testing for myself. Todd's right... Although it showed in Firefox, it wouldn't work in IE... What a a pain... Sorry Todd, but here's the fix - Before embedding the Youtube code in a WordPress post, go to Users - your profile - and UNcheck the box for "use the visual editor when writing". It's stupid, but that all it takes to fix the issue. Sorry - blame Microsoft I guess... Anyway, Read more [...]

Matt will be speaking about "Small Business SEM" at Searchfest which will take place on March 10th, 2008 at the Portland Zoo.Purchase your Searchfest 08 tickets now. 1) Please give us your background and tell us what you do for a living. I help businesses of all sizes improve their web sites so they can acquire relevant traffic from search engines and related sources, like blogs, social media, local search, and so forth. My official title is SEO Manager for Marchex, and I work with Read more [...]

This is a brilliant social media marketing idea...NBA Dunk contestant Rudy Gay is leading up the following promotion: Upload your best slam dunk videos to You Tube and he will select one dunk to perform at the NBA All-Star Game Dunk Contest. A great way to engage the community to follow the new videos being uploaded to You Tube & participate in their evaluation. There's a pretty good chance that a certain number of viral videos will emerge from this process and when one of these dunk videos Read more [...]

Stoney will be speaking about Website Architecture at Searchfest which will take place on March 10th, 2008 at the Portland Zoo. Purchase your Searchfest 08 tickets now. 1) Please give us your background and tell us what you do for a living. I was never an exceptional employee for any company I worked for and grew tired of any job after about a year. Working on someone else's schedule never really worked for me so I always kinda knew that I was going to have to work for myself. If only Read more [...]

Ian will be speaking about Website Analytics at Searchfest which will take place on March 10th, 2008 at the Portland Zoo. Purchase your Searchfest 08 tickets now. 1) Please give us your background and tell us what you do for a living? My background, actually, makes no sense whatsoever. I have a law degree from UCLA (1993), then worked in an engineering firm as a writer and information architect until 1995. In 1995 I started my company under the name The Written Word, Inc. We focused on marketing Read more [...]

Rapidly-growing search engine marketing firm looking for individual to implement and manage interactive marketing campaigns for commercial Web sites and media agencies. Competitive salary and benefits. If you have this: • An understanding of Paid Search PPC campaigns • Search Engine Marketing knowledge • Excellent organizational and analytical skills • Experience working in client and/or departmental services • Integrity, independence, and a desire to apply your skills • Read more [...]

For those of you looking to crack into the SEM industry, or expand your Web knowledgebase may be interested in signing up for one or more of PSU's Internet Strategies Workshop Series. I provide a more detailed overview on my blog, as I'll be an instructor for the eMarketing and SEM workshops. The first workshop in the series (January 25th) provides an overview of eBusiness frameworks and fundamentals, and wraps up in May with a social media/Web 2.0 workshop. We're working on getting a discount Read more [...]